The Project Veritas video shows a CNN producer says that the Russia narrative which the network pushes 24/7 is bunk.

The story so far

This came just after CNN dismissed three of their journalists last weekend for an article about Anthony Scaramucci, who worked on President Donald Trump’s transition team. The article alleged that Scaramucci had Russian connections. My post has more on that and the panic that resulted at CNN.

Oddly, Scaramucci is a frequent guest on the network. Why would they smear him?

On June 27, the New York Post had an excellent article on CNN’s panic and the reasons for it. Excerpts and a summary follow. Emphases mine below.

CNN faced a hefty lawsuit:

The specter of a $100 million libel suit scared CNN into retracting a poorly reported story that slimed an ally of President Trump’s — and forcing out the staffers responsible for it, The Post has learned …

CNN immediately caved after Scaramucci, a financier and frequent network guest, cried foul and threatened to take legal action, sources said Tuesday.

Scaramucci got an unusual public apology but still hired a top Manhattan lawyer to put further pressure on CNN and “look after [his] interests in this matter,” one source said.

The three CNN employees did not resign but were helped out the door:

Sources also said the three journalists responsible for the retracted story — reporter Tom Frank, editor Eric Lichtblau and Lex Haris, who headed the CNN Investigates unit — were urged to resign.

“They called them in and said they’d pay out their contracts, but they should leave immediately,” one source said.

CNN’s CEO Jeff Zucker is particularly worried about the retracted story and its consequences. He is in a precarious position right now:

“It’s not just Jeff Zucker, all Time Warner executives are anxious about if they will survive the merger,” a media source said Tuesday.

This is because the men making the merger decisions are Trump allies:

“What is interesting is that the AT&T execs who will decide who goes and who stays are [AT&T CEO] Randall Stephenson and [AT&T Entertainment Group CEO] John Stankey — who have a very good relationship with the current administration.”

President Trump has opposed the merger and has no love for CNN:

Trump — a fierce critic of CNN — publicly opposed the merger during the campaign. Sources said Scaramucci, a frequent guest on CNN to defend the president, was treated like a star at Saturday’s wedding of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Louise Linton in Washington, DC.

“Everyone at the White House has been high-fiving each other over Anthony’s success in embarrassing CNN,” one attendee said.

“Trump is thoroughly enjoying this, and Anthony got endless slaps on the back at Steve’s wedding.”

Trump was undoubtedly the highest profile guest at Mnuchin’s wedding.

This week, the online world has — rightly — stamped the ‘fake news’ label all over CNN.

Shaughn A co-planned and helped execute a sting of NPR (National Public Radio) with @SimonTemplarPV posing as a Muslim Brotherhood front group. These videos are also part of James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas exposés: Parts I, II and III.

I won’t go into Van Jones’s recent commentary for CNN, however, only days before the Project Veritas reporter interviewed him, he was on television saying how vital it is that the details on Trump’s collusion with Russia be revealed:

Van Jones admitted the Russia Narrative was a "nothing burger" TWO DAYS AGO.

I am looking forward to the day when this falsehood suddenly stops. I hope it is very soon.

BREAKING … Part 3

Part 3 came out today, Friday, June 30. It features an interview with Jimmy Carr, the producer of CNN’s New Day, not the British comedian. He says that nearly everyone at CNN thinks Trump is grossly unqualified for office and that voters are stupid. Carr says the network covers only a handful of stories each day, ones which are good for ratings. The video ends with O’Keefe asking Jeff Zucker for a comment on the videos. Zucker ignores him and gets into a black van: